productivity of investment in health and nutrition early in the life cycle. Age at menarche is presented as a proxy for certain …This study uses a human capital framework to evaluate the impact on labor market productivity of investments in health … and nutrition in Mexico. The research extends the existing literature by proposing age at menarche as an effective …

overstate the negative effects of ill health on labour productivity. • In this paper, higher levels of education are estimated … conditions). – It is possible that these results understate the impact of ill health on productivity, because of the impact that … heterogeneity in the data lead to results that overstate the positive effects of education and good health on labour productivity …